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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I'll be satisfied with either but my preference is for Wheeler and it's not a close competition.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    You're not wrong.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s my fault. I always try to push what technology allows me to do with design but I think I overstepped a bit this time. The design falters a bit under certain hardware conditions. My apologies, lesson learned. Even after you do this thing a dozen times, you still learn because the goalposts always move.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    All teams make these kinds of moves early in the offseason as they rotate bodies around the 40-man. The most likely outcome is that nothing comes of this and Wisler is released some time next year but if the Twins see something that can be fixed, why not give it a shot? He's basically a free player if it works out. This move will not impact other, more important decisions this team will make during the offseason. Every team makes these kind of organizational depth moves.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Waiver order is now decided via GM thumb wrestling.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    It's likely that the team will only "keep" him on the 26-man roster until the time they feel they can sneak him through waivers, probably near the end of the Spring Training.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd rather see the team sign a 3B and move Sano to first base but I won't cry a river if they retain Cron. When he was healthy, he was a pretty good player. I'd prefer an upgrade but given the rotation issues facing the team, it's okay if they focus on that and just keep the lineup intact as much as possible.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I was pretty okay with the ending but the third season kinda chapped my ass. I think too many gloss over that third season of boring-ass drama and then unfairly bash the end.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Plouffe didn't have Sano's physical limitations holding him back. Sano is an amazing athlete but only so much can be done with a 6'4", 270 lb frame. I don't know if I'd worry too much about Sano manning third in 2020 but I'd be looking for a replacement, and soon.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    That’s reasonable. Given his rough 2019, seeing him in Minnesota late in 2020 becomes pretty unlikely. As for how he starts his MLB career, pretty much impossible to predict that. How MILB skills translate to MLB pitchers is a mystery. See Arraez, Luis.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I agree. It'd be nice if someone fast-tracked to the majors and succeeded for once.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow, you’re drawing an insane number of conclusions about a prospect who had an off season. Yeah, having an off season doesn’t look great. But to say he won’t hit his ceiling or that he’s not living up to #1 overall performance is wildly jumping the gun. Not every player has a neat, tidy approach to the majors, yet that doesn't prevent them from later becoming a star any more than ripping through the minors prevents a player from becoming a bust.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The sad trombone sound is the realization that Max Kepler is one of the few RF good enough to also get that ball.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Lewis was impressive in a short 2017. He was very impressive in 2018. He had a bad 2019. We don’t need to adjust expectations over one bad season that was reported to have some coaching-directed adjustments in it. Next year will tell us a lot.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, if the team cybernetically grafts Sano's right arm to Jorge's body. Otherwise, Polanco should move to second base, even if it requires trading either Jorge or Arraez (though I wouldn't do either this season unless the offer is absurd and impossible to resist).
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    That's about where I'd put him, too. I'd try for 3/$45m and that might be possible with the QO attached to him but I'd go 3/$50m if need be. As for signing, I also suspect he's the best pitcher they sign but if they find another equally as good, that would be okay. What I suspect will happen is that they will trade for a good starting pitcher, too... but who that might be, impossible to say.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is that the Twins infield - especially if you plug in Arraez at second full-time - is really bad. Fixing infield defense improves the pitching staff.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    What I do with Sano depends almost entirely on what third basemen are available this offseason and for what price. Maybe I'm clinging to Gonzalez' flexibility too much but I really want to keep him in that role. Or maybe they make Adrianza the super sub and Gonzalez the third baseman. That might not be a terrible solution.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I hope we see him in June or something but it's likely he'll be shut down by September either way. It'd be cool if they could figure out a way to skip him every second or third turn through the rotation, allowing him to last a full season... but I'm not a trainer. That might actually cause more risk of injury than just pitching him, I don't know.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, there are different ways to approach the goal but right now, Odorizzi can pitch 150+ innings of well above average ball. Could he maybe pitch six if an opener is used? Sure, but then you're tasked with finding an opener that can pitch, say, 80-100 innings a year of above average ball because at the end of the year, roughly the same number of innings need to be pitched by one baseball team. Where the innings come don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The point is avoid opposition runs for nine innings a game. There's also the problem of a hard cap of 13 pitchers, which eliminates the option of teams using bullpen games constantly. Thirteen pitchers just can't pitch that many innings unless you go out and find a bunch of 100 inning relievers, which is a different challenge in itself, one that may be impossible given payroll constraints and actual league talent available.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Next year, rosters move to 26 men. Packing the bullpen will no longer compromise the bench as much as it did in previous years. The point of pulling both Odo and Berrios after 5-6 innings is because they're no longer more effective than your average reliever after that point. That's the entire reason for shortened outings. Berrios is better than Odo later in games, therefore he goes just a bit longer per game on average. But Odo (drawing from memory here so I might be off) is quite a bit better than Berrios early in the game so things tend to wash out somewhat. And that's just the reality of modern baseball. It's not just Odo and Berrios. There are very few pitchers who can withstand the absurdly hard task of successfully navigating a modern baseball lineup a third time.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet out of the three pitchers you just mentioned, only one of them effectively managed the Yankees offense and should have left the game with a "W" next to his name in the box score. I consider Berrios and Odorizzi close to interchangeable but people continually undersell Odorizzi's talent level while raving about Berrios and I just don't understand why. Personally, I want them both on my team and at least one more pitcher equally as good, if not better.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I know I'm right about something when Trueblood agrees with me on it. Tag Odo with the QO. If he accepts, fine. If he doesn't, use that QO to negotiate a multi-year deal with him. The Twins need a lot of starters. Keep the best one you had this season to begin the offseason.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins were 5-2 against Tampa.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I was extremely intoxicated at the time, take anything I said about game one with about fifty pounds of salt. Once I sobered up, I just scratched my head and wondered what the hell I had witnessed. What I remembered witnessing, anyway.
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